Plato universe

Plato universe,



The public's awareness is often unable to keep up with the pace of scientific development. Even with regard to the discipline of science, we are still stuck in the prejudices of the past. A representative example is an idea that science is the study of the eternal and immutable order of nature.


This is because we believe that the true value of science lies in discovering immutable truths such as the law of universal gravitation.



This way of thinking has deep roots. The idea is that the universe has eternal and immutable laws, and that contingent event is nothing but phenomena or shadows outside of those laws. The ever-changing earthly objects, events, and superficial phenomena have no real value, and the true meaning of life must be found in the eternal essence of heaven. From ancient Greece to the present day, these values ​​occupy the human mind.



Let's think carefully. Is there really something permanent and unchanging in this world we live in? Wasn't it the plain truth that 'everything changes' is what we realize in reality? Yet, why did mankind become so obsessed with the eternal?


Typhoon, fire, sea, land...


The fear felt from the whims of nature would eventually lead to a longing for an unchanging order in which to settle, a predictable and inevitable order. The sky was enough to be the symbol.


Plato is a representative figure of ancient Greek civilization, symbolized by the idea of ​​Idea.


Plato was influenced by Pythagoras, who believed that the essence of the universe was number. He believed that the properties of the pure, eternal, and perfect universe were contained in the five regular polyhedra.


The gist of this worldview is this: The essence of nature is perfect order. The basic building blocks of nature have perfect symmetry and proportions like regular polyhedra. The sun, moon and planets have perfect symmetry and proportions. The sun, moon, and planets revolve once a day in perfectly circular orbits. The earth where humans live in the centre of this orderly universe.


Plato divided the world into two, the world of ideas and the world of the senses.


The sensory world did not really exist because it was only a shadow of the Idea, the cause and essence of all things. For Plato, 'moving', that is, 'changing', did not exist in the true sense of the word. Only the eternal, the perfect, was worthy of the word 'existence'. This ever-changing world was just a passing, temporary 'phenomenon'.


This dualistic way of thinking still dominates the human mind in various forms even today in the 21st century.


However, science is willing to embrace the 'knowledge of ignorance' and discover changes by creating a gap between the worldview of the past and the minds of modern people.


To the ancients, the universe was the realm of ideas and the realm of God, and humans were the centre of the universe created by God. However, the real universe is not a static, eternal, and infinite space, and humans are merely creatures on the outskirts of the universe created by chance.

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